The movie I watched for the Bechdel test was "Sister Act". This movie is about a lounge singer who witnessed a mob crime scene. Vince (mob boss) puts her name on his hit list, so the police decide to protect her by sending her to a peaceful and traditional convent as a nun.
I knew it was old movie (1992) and I knew the plot of the movie, but I never had watched it before. Most of the characters are female characters (Deloris, Mother superior, Mary Robert, and Mary Patrick. etc.) except the gang members (three of them), and a main cop who's willing to help Deloris as much as he can. More than a half of the conversations that were made in this movie were between female characters. The topic of men and sex was only brought up for comical relief, such as comparing singing bringing the same feeling as sex.
I think this movie is feminist film. Most of the nuns, except mother superior, were open to trying new things. They fixed the convent's car by themselves, painted the building, helped clean up the neighborhood.The movie illustrated the ability to have fun while not focused around men. This was demonstrated in the scene where two nuns were having fun out dancing and enjoying the atmosphere of a bar and music. They didn't ask the question "Can we do this ourselves?" Instead of doing so, they were not afraid meeting new people, doing the activities they have never done before. However, at the end of the movie, where Vince was pointing his gun right to Deloris' head, it was the police who saved her at that very last moment and they were all males. But, other than that, I believe this passes the bechdel test and the film is a feminist one.
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